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The Night Window

The Night Window: Ekphrastic Poems and Short Fictions

By Jason Baldinger, Robert L. Dean

Published: 2025

Poems by Robert L. Dean, Photography by Jason Baldinger

Baldinger has an eye for the arcane, the iconic ordinariness of the battered soul of America’s Rust Belt remnants. Dean traces these intricate tapestries, polishes the sheen of faded dreams, the lives and loves of those who once dwelled in these places. Like facing mirrors, an infinity of reflections cascade as far as we can see. Ekphrasis…
—Roy Beckemeyer

The Night Window brings two artists together in a powerful, uncompromising collection of poetry and photography. All is laid bare, yet there is still room for hope. A powerful and necessary document.
—James Benger

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